A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
CESARE PAVESEGive me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
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You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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